Secondment

Chris Ruane: To ask the Attorney-General 
	(1)  how many of the Law Officers' Departments civil servants have been seconded to (a) the private sector and (b) trades unions in each year since 2010;
	(2)  how many secondees from (a) trades unions and (b) the voluntary sector have worked in the Law Officers' Departments since 2010.

Oliver Heald: Since 2010 only the Crown Prosecution Service has seconded employees to (a) the private sector. No staff have been seconded to a trade union. Details on these secondees are contained in the following table.
	
		
			  Name of company seconded to Number of outward secondees 
			 2011-12 LOCOG(1) 6 
			 2012 LOCOG(1) 2 
			 2010-15 Road Safety Support Ltd (ACPO Affiliation) 1 
			 (1 )London Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games 
		
	
	Two staff members in the Treasury Solicitor's Department have also been seconded out of the UK civil service since 2010; one to a public corporation from December 2008 to August 2011, and one to a charity in the voluntary sector from September 2008 to August 2013.
	During this same period the Law Officers' Departments have had no external secondees from either trade unions or the voluntary sector.

Priority School Building Programme

Tom Blenkinsop: To ask the Secretary of State for Education which schools were (a) initially informed they would and (b) subsequently informed they would not receive funding for under three provision from the Priority School Building Programme by the Education Funding Agency.

David Laws: I am not aware of any school that has been informed that they would receive funding for under three provision from the Priority Schools Building Programme. However, we have allocated £200 million to local authorities for this specific purpose, and we expect them to contribute a proportion of this funding where they wish to provide under three places.

Teachers: Training

George Galloway: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what proportion of trainee teachers who are in (a) the School Direct programme and (b) tertiary institutions are from a Black and minority ethnic community.

David Laws: Provisional data on new entrants to initial teacher training programmes in the academic year 2013-14 were published in a statistical first release (49/2013)—the initial teacher training census for the academic year 2013-14. The ethnicity breakdown of new entrants can be found in the following table and is available online at:
	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/initial-teacher-training-trainee-number-census-2013-to-2014
	
		
			 Table A4: Initial teacher training new entrants (provisional as at 13 November 2013)—Ethnicity breakdown of new entrants(1,2,3). Coverage: England. Academic year: 2013-14 
			 Percentage 
			 Ethnicity breakdown of new entrants on initial teacher training programmes Provider led School direct (Fee) School direct (Salary) Total 
			 Black and minority ethnic (BME) entrants on ITT programmes 12 9 10 12 
			 Non-BME entrants on ITT programmes 88 91 90 88 
			 Total 100 100 100 100 
			 Notes: 1. Percentages for 2013-14 are based on data about actual new entrants at the time of the census, and are provisional and subject to change. 2. Percentages are rounded to the nearest whole percentage, and summed percentages are derived from the unrounded components. 3. Teach First are excluded. Source: NCTL Initial Teacher Training Census

Genito-urinary Medicine

Luciana Berger: To ask the Secretary of State for Health 
	(1)  how many (a) women have received transvaginal mesh implants, (b) women had transvaginal mesh removed and (c) adverse reports relating to transvaginal mesh implants were recorded in each year since 2005;
	(2)  what recent assessment he has made of the prevalence and severity of complications resulting from transvaginal mesh implants;
	(3)  what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of voluntary reporting of complications relating to transvaginal mesh implants; and what his policy is on the introduction of mandatory reporting.

Norman Lamb: The information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is in the following tables.
	
		
			 Finished consultant episodes for women who have received a primary or secondary operative procedure for the insertion of transvaginal mesh, transobturator tape, transvaginal slings and transvaginal tape 
			 Procedure 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 
			 Insertion of transvaginal mesh — 222 1,515 1,827 1,849 .1,636 1,524 1,310 
			 Insertion of transobturator tape — 2,580 5,045 5,750 5,569 5,426 4,885 4,476 
			 Insertion of transvaginal sling 279 277 210 151 141 130 134 135 
			 Insertion of transvaginal tape — 6,137 8,817 8,503 8,397 8,087 8,172 7,627 
			 Note: Activity in English NHS Hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector. Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre 
		
	
	
		
			 Finished consultant episodes for women with a primary or secondary operative procedure for the removal of transobturator tape and transvaginal tape 
			 Procedure 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 
			 Removal of transobturator tape — 68 79 96 128 95 96 124 
			 Removal of transvaginal tape — 287 417 506 475 508 565 581 
			 Notes: 1. Activity in English NHS Hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector 2. There is no clinical coding available for the removal of Transvaginal Mesh or Transvaginal Slings. 3. The Figures do not represent the number of different patients, as a person may have more than one episode of care within the same stay in hospital or in different stays in the same year. Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre 
		
	
	Adverse events that have been reported to Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) since 2005 concerning vaginal tape and mesh implants are as follows:
	
		
			  Vaginal tapes for stress urinary incontinence Vaginal mesh for pelvic organ prolapse Vaginal mesh for unknown indication(1) Total 
			 2005 9 0 0 9 
			 2006 25 1 0 26 
			 2007 3 2 0 5 
			 2008 10 3 0 13 
			 2009 9 3 0 12 
			 2010 38 4 0 42 
			 2011 38 13 3 54 
			 2012 58 38 2 98 
			 Up to June 2013 37 23 2 62 
			 (1) The reporter did not provide enough information on what type of mesh it was. 
		
	
	
		
			 Number of patient safety incidents relating to mesh used in gynaecological procedures reported to the National Reporting and Learning System (year of occurrence by reported degree of harm) 
			  No harm Low Moderate Total 
			 2006 2 0 0 2 
			 2007 1 0 0 1 
			 2008 1 0 1 2 
			 2009 1 2 0 3 
			 2010 1 2 6 9 
			 2011 0 2 4 6 
			 2012 7 4 3 14 
			 2013 4 1 1 6 
			 Total 17 11 15 43 
			 Source: NHS England 
		
	
	The MHRA's current view is that for the vast majority of women, mesh and tape implants are a safe and effective operation, but as with all surgery, there is an element of risk. While a small number of women have experienced distressing and severe effects, the current evidence shows that when these products are used correctly they can help with the very distressing symptoms of these conditions and as such the benefits still outweigh the risks.
	The Department is currently engaged in work to assess the effectiveness of the existing arrangements for reporting complications relating to transvaginal mesh implants. NHS England is facilitating this work, which also involves the MHRA, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and the relevant professional societies (British Society of Urogynaecology and British Association of Urological Surgeons).
	The MHRA continues to encourage voluntary reporting of adverse incidents from all health care workers, as well as carers, patients and members of the public, although we acknowledge that there is considerable under reporting of complications. There are currently no plans in place to introduce mandatory reporting of medical device adverse incidents by health care professionals, however the situation is under constant review to ensure that appropriate systems are in place to facilitate the reporting of adverse incidents from all sources.